Sentence examples for one the function of from inspiring English sources
The relevant notion of a function here is the biological teleological, not the dispositional one: the function of an organ is not what the organ is disposed to do, but what it was selected to do (see Millikan 1984 and Neander 1995).
No one knew the function of those proteins, either.
But no one knew the function of those genes.
But no one knows the function of the gene that was mutated to create them.
"I fail to see what use woman can be to man, if one excludes the function of bearing children".
"Neither one would fulfill the function of a stand-alone folk art museum," she said.
By "luck" one hopes they meant "bad luck," since one of the functions of scandals is to correct things.
His supporters agree and say that providing a report like the one that Suffolk put together and Nassau did not is one of the functions of grand juries.
One of the functions of ArrayPro is to build networks with functional gene sets instead of individual genes.
One of the functions of a high rise is to deflect curiosity and contamination, and it returns one's gaze with the stony inscrutability of a thing.
KAZAN: Yes, it is one of the functions of a director-producer that are most essential.
